The New Year holidays are noisy, and the green beauty still pleases you with its decoration. If it is a pity to send a live Christmas tree to the trash, try to find her application.
Instruction manual
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Make a healthy hair mask. To do this, put a few spruce branches in an enameled pan and fill it with water to completely hide the needles. Simmer for 1 hour. After this, infuse the broth for 20 minutes. Strain and drain into ceramic dishes, adding 1 beaten protein and a few drops of brandy. Apply the resulting mask to your hair, wrap in a towel and hold for 40 minutes. Wash your hair with shampoo. This mask relieves hair from dryness and brittleness.
2
Add spruce broth to the bath. To prepare such a decoction, collect 1 kg of spruce branches, pour them with cold water and boil over low heat for 30 minutes. Put the broth in a warm place for 12 hours. The infusion for the bathtubs is ready. Take such a bath for no more than 15 minutes. Bath relieves fatigue, stops inflammation. It makes the skin supple and supple.
3
Make a crumbling needle into a mattress. Sleep on such a mattress will be calm and serene.
4
Make spruce needles for cold paste. To do this, separate the needles from the branches and scroll them through the meat grinder. In the resulting mass, add 1-2 tablespoons of honey, mix thoroughly, place in a glass jar and refrigerate. You can apply this compress to the chest and do inhalation.
5
Try making jelly from spruce needles. Boil 1 kg of needles under a lid in 0.5 l of water over low heat for 1 hour. Strain the resulting broth through a sieve, add a liter of water and add the diluted gelatin and sugar. Cook another 2 minutes. Pour jelly into portioned saucers. It will turn out delicious and useful for colds.
note
The recipes given in the article are designed for the use of spruce branches and needles. However, if necessary, they can be replaced with pine.
Useful advice
Please note that if you purchased a Christmas tree in a pot, then after the holidays it can be transplanted into the open ground, if you do not plan to use it again in the house.
